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Though this is his first ministerial position, Unger is no newcomer to policy adivising in Brazil, according to Ricardo Reisen de Pinho, a senior researcher at Harvard Business School’s Latin America Research Center, which is based in Buenos Aires. Reisen de Pinho said in an e-mailed statement that “Unger has been a close adviser [to] several controversial Brazilian politicians” and has devised “innovative political ideas for the country” in the past...
...better question might be why a Japanese party would draft a former Latin American strongman as a candidate in the first place. But beyond sheer publicity for a party that needs it - the PNP holds just nine seats in the Diet, fewer than the Japanese Communist Party - Fujimori is held in high regard by some Japanese, despite his alleged crimes. In 1997, while President of Peru, he spearheaded the dramatic rescue of 71 hostages from Tokyo's embassy in Peru, earning the respect of Japanese who viewed their own leaders' performance in the crisis as ineffectual. "If Fujimori...
...good, someday soon we may want to sign him. Yi was named the MVP of the Adidas camp in 2002, and the next month went on to the U.S. to play at the company's global all star camp, which brings together young players from the U.S., Asia, Latin America and Europe...
...Organized Crime in Madrid. The routes and methods vary. Some cocaine is shipped on large vessels directly across the Atlantic, often having been processed at sea. Marcos says this cocaine is sometimes dropped overboard attached to floating buoys, then collected by Africa-based traffickers. The rest is flown from Latin America on twin-prop planes to West Africa, where it is offloaded and shuttled to Europe on smaller planes or via boat...
...operations center in Lisbon later this year. These countries - Spain, Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy and France - will coordinate with U.S. intelligence officers, and plan to begin surveillance flights over the Atlantic in July. They will also coordinate military and police patrols at sea to try to intercept Latin American drug vessels before they reach Africa or Europe. "Whichever warship is nearest will take the vessel and the drugs to Portugal," says Edwards, of the European Commission's drug unit...